A vicious love triangle involving Keith and Carmen, a couple on the verge of divorce, and Keith's lover Billie, a free-spirited biker pregnant with Keith's child, takes on additional tension after Keith and Carmen's 15-year-old daught...
Special agent Blake Johnson has a difficult brief--he must keep the president out of a scandal that threatens to tie U.S. government to a clandestine meeting with the Nazis during World War II. The trouble is that the president's poli...
“Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer.”–Jodi Picoult Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hol...
On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure -...
Returning to her rural hometown of Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, after a fourteen year absence, free-spirited Jane Porter is drawn to Dylan Chadwick, an ex-federal agent and recent returnee fleeing the nightmare of his former life, by an...
Churches outnumber bars 20 to 1 in Greenville, South Carolina--so that's where new-in-town stockbroker Jay Jarvis sets out to meet women. But after a weekend beach retreat with a bevy of bewildering believers--including one particular...
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph CampbellAccording to Joseph Camell, there is only one story in the world, retold in many guises....[he] strips away the masks and shows the Hero to be a cultural code: the universal algorithm for transcending mundane consciousness and pluggin...
The appearance of a corpse in a sarcophagus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would normally be a surprise, but in this case, since the body is that of a museum employee, things are a little different. A district attorney must penetra...
The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, thefifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.' So beginsThe Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part acontemporary story of a girl's search for...
Some doctoral candidate is doubtless hard at work as you read this, trying to explain why and how the serial killer suddenly became every thriller writer's favorite subject. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Tami Hoag shows us in her late...
[Munro] continues to perfect her virtuosic formula....While her style typifies the traditionally realistic, often domestic genre..., Munro's stories are also global, big-hearted and warm....One never knows quite where a Munro story wi...
The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A K...
Patrick RothfussDeep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of ...
A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is ...
Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the Saecular world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and...
They all loved her. That was their mistake. Two husbands, her college fiance, an influential boss every man who gets close to Jordan Price is made to pay in blood. And the list is growing. The more investigator Rick Carson delves into...
Busy Body: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (...
M. C. BeatonCranky, yet lovable Agatha Raisin has never been one for holiday cheer, but her cozy little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its decadent Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing "Silent ...
When she was a high school student Shelley Browning shared one spectacular kiss with Grant Chapman, her young, charismatic, and oh-so-handsome teacher. Years have passed, but that kiss has remained one of Shelley’s favorite memo...
Elly finds her new life in Cadence City taking a strange--and dangerous--turn when her best friend's disappearance immerses her in a realm of myths and legends where only her ex-fianc Cooper Boone can help solve the mystery. Simultane...
#1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter returns with the newest full-throttle adventure in the FBI series featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has ret...
New York City: A thirteen-year-old boy named Tyler lies in a hospital, his brain damaged in a tragic accident. By his bedside, his father stands helplessly, as two very different scientists take charge of the boy's fate. One is a neur...
A stranger named Marsuvees Black appears and announces he has come to bring hope and grace to the mountain town, Paradise, offering dazzling love, faith, and fun to residents, but as dark clouds and sandstorms shut Paradise off from t...
When Guy Brouard, one of the wealthiest residents of the island of Guernsey in the English Channel, is murdered, there are many suspects. Could his killer be one of the underprivileged children he mentored, one of his several former w...
When it was first erected, the House of Seven Gables typified the mechanical Colonel Pyncheon; but it developed through the years until, by Hepzibah's time, it has become humanized and almost organic. The history of the house is thus...
Working as a salesgirl at the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus, Mirabelle, a beautiful aspiring artist, embarks on a love affair with Ray Porter, a wealthy, lonely businessman she meets at the store, and together they struggle to understan...
The start of a major career! A gripping, highly commercial espionage thriller written with the delicious insider detail and up-to-the-minute insight, only known to a veteran CIA spook.In today's Russia, dominated by Prime Minister Vla...
Gentle Reader, It could have been a scene from one of my novels. As a rule, respectable ladies do not accept calls from Mysterious Gentlemen on business of the most grave importance - but I confess that I was possessed of a lively cur...
Vulcan's Heart (Star Trek: The Origin...
Josepha ShermanAmbassador Spock secretly journeys to the planet Romulus at the request of a Romulan commander to help her prevent a catastrophe that could ignite the entire quadrant and becomes enmeshed in the treacherous intrigues of the Romulan em...
Dave Barry's History of the Millenniu...
Dave BarryThucydides, Gibbon, Tuchman, McCullough-to the names of the world's great historians must now be added the name of Dave Barry, who has taken a long, hard look at our new millennium (so far) and, when he stopped hyperventilating, has w...
From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice. 'There,' says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, ju...
The Annotated Sword of Shannara: 35th...
Terry BrooksTHE PHENOMENAL EPIC OF GOOD AND EVIL LIKE IT'S NEVER BEEN EXPERIENCED BEFOREbr br Thirty-five years ago, Terry Brooks brought to life a dazzling world in The Sword of Shannara. Fourteen more Shannara volumes would follow, making the ...